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Janne Moren
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HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan. Former neuroscientist, former programmer.

Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are […]

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We caught the end of fall leaf season in Osaka!

#osaka #autumn
Midosiji street in Osaka, with trees still covered in yellow leaves.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Winter. Time to leave for the holidays!

#okinawa #photography
Portrait photo from inside out on a balcony view. Only the curtain on the right is in focus. An out of focus glass railing, a skyline and a clear sky is visible. The color tone is that of a cool, clear, dry, pale-blue kind of day.
December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I needed some wire because of LED lighting.

LED light bulbs are great, but they're heavier than the old incandescent ones. So my cheap #ikea #anglepoise knock-off desk lamp kept sagging from the weight.

I *could* find a new set of springs with a larger spring […]

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The upper joint and springs of an articulated desk lamp from IKEA.At one end part of each spring is held tight with a loop of wire, effectively making them shorter, and able to resist a larger weight. The lamp is quite dusty and grimy close up. Seems I need to either clean more often, or stop taking closeup pictures of things.
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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"Get some piano wire" they said. "It will make things easy" they said.

#diy
A coil of piano wire that no longer coils; instead it's formed a large tangled ball of springy steel wire.
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"Boat. One careful owner. Minor cosmetic damage."
Part of the red prow of a wooden Okinawan fishing boat is abandoned on the coast.
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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If you want a quiet spot to sit outside in the middle of a japanese city, the big department stores usually have a rooftop garden or similar, and they're often underused.

This is the roof of Palette Ryubo in Naha. There's a fair number of people around, but […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]
A sunny rooftop garden with trees and shrubbery. On a table in the foreground is a computer.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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A few leaves in #urasoe castle park, #okinawa .

#photography #lowkey
A branch and a couple of small leaves lit up by the sun against an almost completely black jungle background.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Pickled herring and egg sandwich for lunch! I'm a sucker for the finer, refined things in life.

#food #lunch #luxurylifestyle #refinedelegance
Double toast cut in half, with picked herring, boiled egg and chives visible in between. Not visible is the cream cheese and mayonnaise.
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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No idea where this came from originally, so I can't give credit:

#pinkfloyd #freud
The album cover of "Dark Side of the Moon" with Sigmund Freuds face overlaid. The title is "Pink Freud", "The Dark Side Of Your Mom"
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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#coffee event at Parco City here on #okinawa . And one stand is selling coffee beans grown on #Kumejima just west of the main island.

Price: 50000 yen for 100g. That's about 280 Euro or 330 dollars. No, I did not buy any 😋
A price tag for light roasted coffee beans grown on Kumejima in Okinawa. 50g for 25000 yen or 100g gor 50000.
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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FYI, I'm posting this on the record.

@davidho
A phone, on a record, with a post "FYI, I'm posting this on the record."
October 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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"Scattered showers" they said. "It'll be fine" they said. "No need for an umbrella."
Exterior wooden plank entrance with a view towards the ocean and other buildings. Except nothing is visible due to a wall of rain pouring down on everything. The tone is dark and washed-out.
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Went to see a photo exhibition by Nagi Yoshida at the Urasoe Art Museum this weekend. It's portraits of minority ethnic groups around the world.

Very skillfully produced. Great inspiration for doing wide-angle shots of people.

But. The processing mimics phone […]

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Photo of a wide-angle photo of tribal boys in skeleton-like body paint. High contrast, high dynamic range, boosted chroma.
October 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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@Edent
A post saying it's quoting a post about how to quote posts on Mastodon. The quoted post says "post unavailable".
October 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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So the bad thing about IKEA is that the stores are way out in industrial areas with cheap land and good transportation.

The good thing is, industrial areas tend to be really cool places for pictures. The weather didn't agree today, but here's a tiny part of the Osaka harbor.
A harbor with two giant container cranes and a small tugboat. In the background the end of a large red steel truss bridge.
September 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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It's hard to get up and go running early in the morning. But if you do, you're rewarded with some pretty good scenery.

#okinawa #photography #running
A lone fishing boat at anchor in a small bay in the morning. The sky and sea are both clear blue and the boat is reflected directly in the water and indirectly with a small cloud right above.
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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#silksong broke Steam...
An error page on steam with a green figure and the text "Something went wrong".
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A few more Yonaguni pictures.

#yonaguni #okinawa #japan #photography
Three horses feeding on a field overlooking an ocean. The sky is overcast, and the sea is grey. A group of worn concrete tetrapods in evening light, with the sun sparkling off the ocean. A two-tone blue Kei truck in front of a building in the same blue tone. An Okinawan red tile roof with white cement against a blue sky. The roof has weeds growing on it.
August 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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”キーンの龍”

#中島みゆき #オヤジギャグ #drコトー #ごめんなさい
A silver dragon with Keen sandals. It's a very bad joke, and it only makes sense if you are a fan of Miyuki Nakajima and/or the "Dr. Koto" television drama.
July 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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You know a place is popular with divers when the airport has a sign about not entering while wearing a wetsuit.
A sign taped onto an airport entrance door. The text tells diving shops not to allow customers to enter while wearing wetsuits.
July 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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[Suggestive natural feature]

This is 立神岩 ("erect-god cliff") on Yonaguni island. As Freud would say: "Sometimes a phallus is just a phallus."

#yonaguni #photography
A somewhat suggestively shaped vertical stone pillar or cliff thrusting from the stormy sea.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Yonaguni! And as we hoped, the weather is better than on Okinawa main island.

#yonaguni #okinawa #japan
Sonai village on Yonaguni seen from a propeller aircraft. Big cliff over a house and river. Three tetrapots partially submerged in a small bay.
July 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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You see those white circles going from right toward upper left? That's the probable path for #typhoon 7. Those other circles going upwards from the bottom? Most likely typhoon 8 in another day or so.

That area where the two storms kind of intersect? Yeah […]

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Screenshot of a typhoon tracking website with two typhoons lining up to hit Okinawa in turn.
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A lot of cone for very little problem.

#japan
A stairwell with a large red safety cone protecting people from a small wooden piece missing from the handrail.
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Important life advice, right up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia": Don't go near Doutonbori during the peak of Golden Week.

#osaka #gw #doutonbori
A huge crowd of people filling Doutonbori street in Osaka.
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM